Victoria Kim is the Seoul correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. Since joining the paper in 2007, she has covered state and federal courts, worked on investigative projects and reported on Southern California’s Korean community. She has previously written for the Associated Press out of South Korea and West Africa, as well as for the Financial Times in New York. Kim was raised in Seoul and graduated from Harvard University with a degree in history.
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A flourishing subgenre of YouTube channels features North Korean refugees telling how they fled the authoritarian government and how they’ve adjusted.
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With noise complaints in high-rise apartments surging amid COVID-19, exasperated South Koreans have turned to extreme measures to get back at their upstairs dwellers.
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s Asia diplomacy aims to rebuild alliances ahead of the Biden administration’s first face-to-face talks with China.
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Tens of thousands of North Korean women have been trafficked into forced marriages in China and give birth to stateless children. The mothers face a fraught choice between their children or their freedom, a choice that continues to haunt many.
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Train zombies. Historic zombies. High-rise apartment zombies. DMZ zombies. The undead are proliferating in South Korea’s imagination.
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After declaring three years ago that his country had fulfilled its decades-long ambition to become a nuclear power, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un turned his attention to fixing an ailing economy that was undermining his pledge to better the lives of his people.
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As President Biden takes office, the rest of the world watches closely, some less focused on Biden’s ascension than on Trump’s departure.
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The growing popularity of YouTube in South Korea has led to questionable attempts by users to gain viewers, including promises of vigilante justice.
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Un estudio de Corea del Sur plantea la preocupación de que seis pies de distancia social pueden no ser suficientes para mantener a las personas a salvo del coronavirus.
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A South Korean study raises concerns that six feet of social distance may not be far enough to keep people safe from the coronavirus.